ABSTRACT

Echothiophate is a cholinesterase inhibitor that causes miosis, increase in facility of outflow of aqueous humor, a fall in IOP, and potentiation of accommodation by enhancing the effect of endogenously liberated acetylcholine in the iris, ciliary muscle, and other parasympathetic innervated structures of the eye. It is indicated in the treatment of chronic open-angle glaucoma; and treatment of accommodative esotropia (see also Figure 12).